M. Carek

for the culture

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@IKE_Packers In a box at Soldier.....it's glorious

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is accurate

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Tossing a like on the hottest chick you know’s story

[Matt Yeazel @MattYeazel]

Pay your tolls! #ThisIsMyCrew

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@UsherNBA https://t.co/jLyIKqYunm

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

Moist Jordan lives eternally

[Pratik @PatelESPN]

eventually the deer district should have a statue of the jrue-to-giannis finals lob, a statue of brook as the dino, and a khris statue that’s actually a water fountain

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@nihilist_bucks Too busy reporting about meetings that hes sure are probably happening maybe

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Yeah he’s finished

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@ESPNMilwaukee Bruh

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

I'm so old I remember 2 months ago when Democrats couldn't even bring themselves to clap for a 13 year old cancer patient with multiple brain surgeries, and now they want us to not talk about the coverup of the century because a career criminal/pedophile has cancer. Interesting.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Bernie Sanders, 2008.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Joe Rogan explains the importance of hearing Elon Musk directly talk about USAID cuts instead of hearing it from the media

Every single thing being cut is FULLY transparent and available to view:

Joe Rogan “It’s fascinating because it's like the vampires all out themselves. Like now everybody knows who the system is. If you're just lying openly about USAID and then they come and hear you talk on a podcast and explain what's really going on.

All you’re hearing is like, he's starving mothers. There's mothers that can't get food. That’s totally false. No one's talking in any of these mainstream liberal talk shows, no one is talking about all this fraud and waste”

Elon Musk “Because we're cutting off their grift machine so that that's what they're upset about. That's the real thing they're upset about. If people wanna know what DOGE is cutting and I wanna be clear, — you can see line by line what DOGE has done at doge. gov

So whatever we do, we put on doge. gov so you can see everything that is being done. You can look at each line it.

A bunch of these sort of these far-left shows will say like, oh, it's a constitutional crisis, blah, blah, blah. But what they won't do is point out which payments are wrong. So my challenge to them is point out which payments are wrong. Yeah. Go through it. What of which of these sort of ways we’re slashing fraud things are wrong? Which line? Explain that line to the public. They won't be able to.”

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

Giannis Antetokounmpo just had the fewest minutes played in a 30/15 game since 1967.

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@SamQuinnCBS @nba_paint with all due respect

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

@ScottJenningsKY I know people who voted Dem because of this topic alone. You could show them that it was a lie, but many just chose to believe the lie anyway. This is good, and also reminder of how pathetic today's politics are.

[All About the Bucks @All_About_Bucks]

Video tribute to Khris Middleton. Hope you all like it 💔

[End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism]

You can’t make this up.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is throwing a tantrum over RFK Jr. passing the initial Senate Finance Committee vote, arguing that allowing vaccine manufacturers to be sued is dangerous.

“Vaccine manufacturers often operate on very slim profit margins.

If they get sued repeatedly and successfully, they simply move out of the vaccine space.

We've already seen this happen with vaccines in the past.”

To be clear, she’s arguing that Big Pharma should be shielded from lawsuits—even when their vaccines cause harm.

Some of these people are truly insane.

[M. Carek @M_Carek]

You can't hate woke culture enough

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:

"Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place."